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THE  PITH  AND  HARROW 


OF  THE 


Closing  and  Coming  Centuiy 


AND  RELATED  POSITION  OF 


Freehasonry  and  Jesuitry. 


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THE  PITH  AND  MARROW  OF  THE  CLOSING 
AND  COMING  CENTURY 


AND    RELATED    POSITION    OF 


Free  Masonry  and  Jesuitry^ 


CCUSTOMED  to  measuring  eternity  by  the  tick  of  the  watch,  the  fact 
escapes  notice  that  the  time  period  measurements  of  weeks,  months, 
years  and  centuries,  are  not  accidents,  not  senseless  arbitrary  divisions 
of  time,  but  that  they  are  the  results  of,  and  in  harmony  with  Uni- 
versal Law,  which  fact  becomes  more  and  more  one-pointed  as  our  range  of 
consciousness  expands. 

It  is  evident,  even  to  a  careless  observer,  that  all  persons,  things  and  events 
are  related  and  interdependent;  those  who  carefully  follow  and  correlate  series 
of  events  covering  long  periods  find  remarkable  relationships  and  results. 

The  merchant,  as  the  year  draws  near  its  close,  interrupts  or  disturbs  the 
ordinary  progress  of  his  business,  to  settle  old  matters  and  to  close  his  books, 
preparatory  to  entering  the  new  year,  and  its  unknown,  broadening  possibilities, 
with  a  clear  understanding  of  his  resources  and  abilities. 

Likewise,  on  the  broader  fields  of  community,  national,  race  and  world 
life,  are  found  corresponding  and  related  cyclic  disturbances,  adjustments, 
progression  or  retrogression,  depending  upon  the  balance  showing  on  the  credit 
side  of  Right  Action,  or  on  the  debit  side  of  Wrong  Doing.  Truth  expressed 
in  commercial  terms  is  best  understood  to-day. 

Glance  over  the  world's  history  by  centuries,  and  near  the  close  of  each 
will  be  found  the  culmination  of  a  more  or  less  widespread  and  important  series 
of  events,  all  related,  in  that  they  have  a  common  trend  and  purpose. 

Leaving  the  proving  of  this  statement  to  those  who  care  to  investigate,  we 
turn  our  attention  to  the  present,  to  find  the  world  facing — that,  in  fact,  it  is  now 
in  the  midst  of — events  and  culminations,  the  importance  of  which  have  not 
been  equalled  in  many  centuries,  probably  not  within  the  period  of  recorded 
history. 

If  this  statement  appears  extreme,  a  comparative  examination  of  present 
signs  and  ruling  conditions  points  to  its  early  demonstration. 

Individual  life  and  conditions  constitute  the  basis  and  ruling  factor  in 
community,  national  and  world  life;  if  the  individual  units  are  contented  and 
happy,  the  world  is  at  peace ;  if  unsettled  and  disturbed,  then  commerce  is  in  a 
chaotic  state,  nations  are  suspicious  and  stand  prepared  to  fly  at  each  other's 
throats. 

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•;•'•••••••    •••-crtOgiNG  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

Looking  backward,  we  find  periods  of  disturbance,  frequently  involving 
nations,  even  changing  the  political  conditions  and  map  of  a  continent,  as  in 
Napoleon's  time;  but  to-day  the  whole  world  is  in  a  condition  of  unrest  and 
uncertainty,  which,  perceptibly  affecting  every  human  condition  and  mind, 
focalizes  and  emphasizes  itself  in  every  organized  body;  in  nations,  religious 
organizations,  industrial,  commercial  and  financial  trusts  and  labor  unions; — 
none  are  exempt ;  all  stand,  the  world  over,  as  classified,  separate,  more  or  less 
compact  and  antagonistic  units,  anxiously  expectant  of  the  impending  unknown, 
ready  to  act,  or  already  engaged,  offensively  or  defensively,  in  what  they  in  the 
main  consider  self-preservation. 

But  is  this  general  mustering  of  forces  in  reality  for  the  purpose  of  em- 
phasizing and  perpetuating  the  reign  of  selfishness,  separateness,  intolerance 
and  craft?  Underneath  the  seeming,  is  there  not  a  deeper,  truer,  more  intelli- 
gent force  at  work,  moulding  and  shaping  conditions  and  events  for  the  com- 
mon good,  stirring  into  action,  and  bringing  into  of>en  battle  array  the  good  and 
evil  qualities,  the  life  and  death  forces  embodied  in  man's  higher  and  lower 
natures,  preparatory  to  their  locking  horns  in  the  death  struggle  for  the  final 
mastery,  with  the  fate  of  humanity  as  the  stake  ? 

Let  us  seek  answers  in  the  signs  of  the  times :  First,  as  indicating  in  the 
individual,  then  in  powerful  organized  bodies — the  larger  personalities. 

Every  man'  who  will  honestly  examine  himself,  will  find  both  the  good  and 
the  evil  qualities  in  his  own  nature  emphasized,  awake  and  arrayed  against  each 
other,  contending  for  the  mastery.  He  finds  himself  unusually  interested  in, 
and  taking  sides  for  or  against  wrong  and  injustice  in  matters  foreign  to  his 
personal  interests  and  customary  observation.  His  power  to  discern  the  right  is 
unusually  clear  and  forceful. 

Again,  as  though  to  give  all  opportunity,  matters  of  frequent  occurrence, 
and,  as  the  world  goes,  of  seeming  unimportance,  suddenly  spring  into  universal 
prominence ;  are  discussed  throughout  the  civilized  world  in  private  and  public, 
in  the  press  and  pulpit ;  in  fact,  the  whole  world  discusses  and  intelligently  takes 
sides  for  or  against  the  principles  involved,  and  in  so  doing  each  person  enlists 
and  throws  his  influence  on  the  side  of  Right  or  Wrong. 

The  world  has  so  divided  and  arrayed  itself  over  the  case  of  Captain  Drey- 
fus, that  brave  man,  who,  in  his  apparently  hopeless  but  superb  battle  for  the 
principles  of  Justice  and  Liberty,  fought  against  a  corrupt  combination,  a  sense- 
less and  corrupt  court,  an  apathetic  people,  and  in  so  doing  suffered  many  mar- 
tyrdoms. 

But  this  was  not  the  complete,  nor  the  main  result  following  this  case. 
Such  an  exhibition  of  brutal  inhumanity,  palpable  and  hideous  injustice,  based 
on  and  sustained  by  the  grossest  falsehood,  perjury,  vile  calumny  and  attempted 
murder, — all  in  the  name  of  Justice, — has  irretrievably  disgraced  a  great  coun- 
try, appalled  all  honest  men,  and  notified  the  world  that  Justice  was  foully 
murdered  and  can  no  longer  be  found  in  her  courts.  It  did  more  than  this! 
It  brought  into  the  blazing  light  and  scrutiny  of  an  aroused  world-wide  public. 


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FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  3 

the  hidden,  subtle  and  evil  organized  force,  which  stands  charged  with  and  is 
responsible  for  that  crime,  and  it  will  never  again  be  able  to  conceal  its  intol- 
erance, bigotry,  and  persecution, — its  work  of  mental  thralldom  and  spiritual 
death,  under  cover  of  piety  and  care  for  the  spiritual  welfare  of  humanity  as 
God's  vicegerent. 

The  time  has  come  when,  courts  of  Justice  failing,  circumstances  and  cofir- 
ditions,  as  relentless  witnesses  for  the  Higher  Law,  will  compel  justice,  and 
irretrievably  expose  and  ruin  the  hiding  culprits,  be  they  individuals,  secular  or 
religious  organizations. 

At  last  the  spiritual  eye  of  humanity  is  open, — ^the  eye  which  sees  the 
Truth  standing  emphasized  and  more  clearly  revealed  by  calumny,  denial,  or 
apparently  friendly  criticism-  and  commendation  with  a  But,  insinuating  impar- 
tiality, or  claimed  disinterestedness  in  matters  which  are  known  to,  and  deeply 
interest  every  intelligent  human  being. 

So  the  Great  Law,  Intelligence,  or  God — ^name  it  as  you  like,  has  taken 
the  martyrdom  of  this  brave  but  obscure  man,  one  of  a  persecuted  people,  who, 
in  just  return,  control  the  world's  idol — and  elevated  him  as  a  symbol  of  a  great 
Principle,  which  this  world  of  men  have  championed  or  antagonized  by  the 
mental  attitude  they  have  taken  towards  the  Dreyfus  case. 

The  same  principle  was  the  basis,  thinly  veiled,  behind  our  conflict  with 
Spain.  In  that  war  identically  the  same  forces  of  light  and  darkness  were  con- 
tending for  mastery.  The  American  people  in  entering  upon  the  war — purely 
for  the  cause  of  humanity,  the  first  instance  in  recorded  history — were  im- 
pelled by  the  same  law  which  used  Dreyfus.  Largely  unconscious  of  their  high 
guidance  and  mission,  they  none  the  less  promptly  and  effectively  arrayed  them- 
selves— leading  the  nations — as  the  exponents  and  champions  of  right,  en- 
lightenment, progress,  and  physical,  mental  and  spiritual  freedom,  as  opposed 
to  this  subtle,  organized  force,  which,  from  love  of  power,  has  always  pros- 
tituted its  immense  strength  by  standing  as  the  main  block  in  the  way  of  mental 
and  spiritual  health,  freedom  and  progress  in  the  Western  World. 

We  were  not  combating  Spain  as  a  nation  or  people,  but  as  the  ancient 
champion  of  this  most  intelligent,  but  selfishly  directed  force,  which  was  har- 
bored as  the  dominating  power  in  her  individual,  national,  material  and  spiritual 
life.  Spain  finally  obtained  the  natural  and  legitimate  fruitage  of  her  work  of 
oppression,  tyranny,  and  destruction,  in  national  decay,  humiliation,  and  defeat. 

Like  Dreyfus,  this  naturally  noble  people  suffered,  when  as  an  outer  cov- 
ering, they  were  rent  asunder,  that  the  real  destroying  force  should  be  exposed, 
as  a  warning  to  other  men  and  nations. 

Here  it  is  pertinent  to  inquire  if  we  as  a  people,  or  as  a  government,  have 
learned,  or  even  discovered,  this  vital  lesson  of  our  unfinished  war.  When 
we  find  this  same  ill-guiding  force,  virtually  and  practically  in  control  of  our 
affairs  and  army  in  the  Philippines — else  our  returning  warriors,  and  all  other 
than  official  reports  are  unintelligent  and  wholly  false — then  the  reason  becomes 
apparent  for  the  constant  contact  with  our  Government,  and  the  seemingly  dis- 
interested counsels  of  eminent  exponents  of  the  power  which  persecuted  Drey- 


4  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

fus,  destroyed  Spain,  and  is  now  seeking  to  perpetuate  itself  in  control  of  the 
Philippines. 

Would  not  this  be  a  convenient  and  undisturbing  method  for  this  force  to 
ingratiate  and  make  itself  useful  to  our  good,  but — let  us  hope — innocent- 
minded  official  heads,  in  order  that  its  advocates  may  the  more  easily  and  un- 
observed tighten  their  already  powerful  but  concealed  grasp  on  our  political 
life  and  government? 

If  any  intelligent,  non-partisan  person  does  not  agree  with  these  suggestive 
statements  and  questions,  he  is  challenged,  for  the  sake  of  our  beloved  country 
and  freedom,  to  make  a  quiet  and  thorough  investigation,  and  conviction  will 
result. 

It  will  be  found  that  the  original  insurrection  of  the  Filippinos  was  not 
against  Spanish  rule,  as  such,  but  against  the  force  in  question  acting  through 
the  Spanish  rule,  which  made  the  life  of  a  naturally  free  and  not  unintelligent 
people  unbearable,  although  both  were  one  in  religious  faith. 

As  the  United  States  was  led  into  assuming  Spain's  position,  we  are  de- 
fending, and  the  Filippinos  are  through  us,  combating  the  same  enemy,  force 
and  rule  against  which  they  first  rebelled. 

Our  position  in  this  respect  is  at  least  anomalous  and  difficult  to  under- 
stand, except  from  one  point  of  view. 

Eastern  Asia  is  uneasily  turning  in  its  long  repose,  disturbed  at  the  loud 
knocking  of  selfish  nations  and  rapacious  commerce. 

The  lovers  of  freedom  in  the  great  slave  continent  are,  as  they  view  the 
question,  planting  and  defending  the  flag  of  liberty  against  foreign  aggression 
and  domination. 

With  the  past  history  and  relations  of  the  nations  in  Europe,  divided  as 
they  are  into  numerous  fortified  and  fully  armed  hostile  camps,  all  alert  and 
disturbed  by  expectant  fear  of  the  pregnant  unknown,  this  African  camp-fire 
can  easily  ignite  the  ready  fires  of  all  Europe,  and  through  them,  the  whole 
world,  completing  the  change  of  its  map,  already  begun  by  the  United  States 
battling  in  the  main  for  Right  and  Progress. 

The  insular  "Monroe  Doctrine"  is  already  swallowed  up  in  the  broader 
world  interests  in  which  we  have  suddenly  and  unexpectedly  taken  a  unique 
and  leading  part. 

A  gigantic  figure  has  loomed  above  the  horizon  of  the  nineteenth  century, 
one  humane  foot  placed  on  the  Antilles,  guarding  the  waters  which  command  the 
approaches  to  the  great  American  Continental  Canal  which  he  must  build ;  the 
other,  unconsciously  held  impending  in  the  world''s  atmosphere  while  harking 
to  humanity's  cry,  unexpectedly  planted  on  the  threshold  of  Asia's  unexplored 
storehouse  of  material,  mental  and  spiritual  wealth.  Incidentally  he  shelters 
and  protects  the  Americas — the  great  impassable  Continental  Divide  separat- 
ing Europe  from  the  teeming  East.  He  stands  expectant  and  superb  in  his 
undeveloped  strength — this  young  giant  Colossus  of  modern  times — calmly 
facing  the  ancients  and  the  pregnant  future  with  sublime  trust  in  himself  and 
in  the  Cause  of  Right  and  Humanity  which  he  has  championed  before  the 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  5 

whole  world.  He  is  the  symbol  of  the  higher  part  or  soul  of  humanity  in 
action;  the  torch-bearer  of  Truth,  Light  and  Liberation  to  the  discouraged 
and  downrtrodden. 

When  the  surprise  and  compounded  admiration-fear  commendation  of  the 
older  nations  settles  into  conviction  that  their  selfish,  dominating  influence  and 
commercial  supremacy  is  in  jeopardy,  we  shall  require  that  divinely  inspired 
wisdom  and  courage  which  go  hand  in  hand  with  intelligent  right  action. 

With  pure  motive  and  high  principle  as  our  main-spring  and  guide,  our 
passage  through  the  Red  Sea  of  selfishness  into  the  Promised  Land  of  Uni- 
versal Brotherhood  will  be  safe  and  glorious;  but  destruction  is  certain  if  we, 
off  guard,  permit  the  subtle  wrecking  intelligence  of  the  past  and  present  cen- 
turies to  creep  in,  and  whisper  evil  counsel  into  the  ears  of  our  helmsman. 

While  this  feeling  of  unrest  and  uncertainty  regarding  the  impending 
future  consciously  affects  all  individual  and  national  life  and  conditions,  we 
find  money — ^the  life  blood  of  present  material  life — gathering  in  a  few  vast 
aggregations  or  trusts,  so  organized  and  efficiently  commanded  as  to  be  more 
powerful  than  the  government  itself  in  controlling  the  products,  industries  and 
transportation  of  the  entire  country;  in  fact,  some  of  these  stand  to-day  as  a 
block  to  the  legislation  absolutely  required  for  the  building  and  peaceable  gov- 
ernment control  of  an  Isthmus  Canal; and  this,  in  face  of  the  perfectly  appar- 
ent fact,  that  the  early  completion  of  such  a  water-way  is  a  vital  necessity  to 
our  national  well-being  and  safety,  if  not  to  our  very  life. 

We  stand  responsible  for  the  defence  of  our  long  double  coast  lines,  our 
new  island  possessions  commanding  the  Caribbean  Sea,  and  stretched  across 
the  Pacific  Ocean  dominating  its  northern  waters,  and  the  South  American 
coasts,  which  are  virtually  under  our  protection  as  against  foreign  aggression. 

With  a  completed  canal  all  our  water  responsibilities  zvould  he  safeguarded 
and  met  with  practically  one-half  the  naval  artnament  and  its  incident  expense, 
as  compared  with  what  will  be  imperative,  lacking  a  canal.  Quick  concentra- 
tion in  cither  ocean  would  forestall  and  defeat  slow  and  difficult  combinations 
enforced  by  passage  by  the  Cape. 

In  face  of  these  patent  facts,  and  the  disturbed,  jealous  and  prepared  con- 
dition of  the  nations,  can  zve  longer  safely  or  economically  indulge  in  the  ego- 
tistical dream  of  our  fancied  ability  to  instantly  do  what  at  best  requires  years 
to  accomplish?  Shall  we  as  a  people  permit  any  power  among  ourselves  or  on 
earth,  to  even  delay  tJiis  workf 

The  danger  from  trusts  is  more  important,  imminent  and  threatening,  in 
the  direction  of  their  unlimited  legislative  purchasing  power,  than  from  any 
material  increase  in  cost  of  living,  or  lack  of  profit,  or  loss  bv  investors  in  their 
multi-watered  stocks. 

At  this  crucial  periodi,  when  the  retarded  evolutionary  progress  of  human- 
ity can  spring  forward,  carrying  it  into  its  long-lost  heritage  of  spiritual  con- 
sciousness and  divine  knowledge,  every  intelligently  honest  man  must  satisfy 
himself  regarding  his  own  standing  ground.  In  that  safe  position,  he  will  use 
his  God-given  perceiving  and  thinking  faculties,  to  himself  analyze,  judge  and 


6  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

accept  or  reject  old  and  new  beliefs,  ideas,  presentations  and  men,  as  he  deems 
best.  Thus  growing  mentally  and  spiritually  strong  he  will  discover  error  and 
falsehood,  discern  and  follow  Truth  and  become  its  efficient  and  courageous 
agent  in  dispelling  ignorance  and  opposing  intolerance,  bigotry  and  selfishness. 

Men  once  aroused  to  a  realization  of  this  divine  common-sense  will  com- 
prehend and  enforce  the  self-evident  truth  that  Intelligence  must  and  will  rule 
—by  devious  methods  if  forced  by  ignorance  to  indirection,  but  honestly  and 
for  the  good  of  all,  when  direct  and  responsible.  This  is  in  the  nature  of 
things.  It  cannot  be  overcome  nor  long  subverted,  except  at  the  expense  of 
true  progress  and  civilization.  These  will  be  quickly  swallowed  up  and  lost 
in  a  maelstrom  of  anarchy  and  barbarism,  into  which  a  society,  nation  or  world, 
ruled  by  its  ignorant  element,  will  inevitably  lapse;  and  the  intelligent  are  re- 
sponsible if  this  element  gains  control.  They  have  permitted,  or  perhaps  tem- 
porizingly  encouraged,  the  cry  of  ignorance — "Equality" — when  all  nature, 
especially  man,  proves  it  utterly  false  and  impossible.  Are  there  two  blades  of 
grass  or  two  men  in  the  world  just  alike  and  equal  in  every  respect? 

Equality  is  a  fatal  fallacy,  instituted  and  sustained  by  ignorance,  char- 
latanism, political  irresponsibility  and  corruption. 

Intelligence  declares  and  maintains  Fraternity  and  Community  of  Interest 
in  Degree;  that  all  would  find  comfort  and  happiness  in  working  for  the  com- 
mon good ;  in  fact,  that  these  proper  desires  and  ambitions  can  be  realized  in  no 
other  way ;  that  a  paternal  form  of  government  has  in  the  past,  and  must  again, 
satisfy  these  good  citizenship  desires  and  ambitions;  that  if  America  and  the 
balance  of  the  world  intends  to  save  itself,  we  must  arouse  and  stimulate  in- 
dividual thinking  and  intelligence,  to  guide  and  control  material  and  spiritual 
life,  else  it  will  be  dominated  by  antagonistic  and  destructive  forces  and  men. 

Then  if  we  find  ourselves,  our  commerce  and  industries  in  the  control 
of  combinations  or  trusts  which  dominate  the  government,  or  our  political  and 
religious  interests  threatened,  we  shall  be  sufficiently  intelligent  and  common- 
sensed  as  a  people,  to  examine  and  understand  the  reverse  side  of  our  national 
seal,  and  possibly  recognize  that  the  ancient  God-sent  Constitution'  of  a  rapidly 
evolving  nation  must  be  correspondingly  developed,  or  it  will  for  a  time  hamper 
national  growth,  and  then  become  inoperative  and  a  menace  to  public  safety, 
even  in  its  inability  to  protect  its  worshippers,  or  permit  their  government  to 
protect  itself  against  secular  or  religious  combinations.  Then  we  shall  be  suffi- 
ciently awake,  and  wise  enough  to  evolve  our  Constitution  abreast  of  conditions, 
reform  our  Government  onto  a  non-partisan,  unselfish  basis,  and  absorb  any  or 
all  selfish  combinations  or  trusts  into  one  vast  trust,  owned  and  operated  for 
the  common  good,  by  a  Government  made  directly  responsible  to  the  people. 

These  conclusions  are  especially  true  and  applicable  to  a  nation,  whose 
ability,  strength  and  resources  are  to  itself  as  yet  unknown  quantities. 

An  intelligent  people,  to  permanently  remain  free  and  self-governing,  must 
itself  and  through  its  Government,  stand  ready  and  sufficiently  courageous  to 
change  old  things  and  methods  to  meet  advanced  conditions;  to  observe,  an- 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  7 

alyze,  wisely  direct  and  lead  all  natural,  and  to  control  and  neutralize  all  ille- 
gitimate developments. 

To-day  whoever  or  whatever  is  consciously  or  unconsciously  working  for 
self,  is  working  against  the  broad  principle  of  Brotherhood,  or  the  Common 
Good,  as  emphasized  in  the  teachings  of  Christ,  Buddha  and  all  humanity's 
saviors;  such  are,  consciously  or  otherwise,  under  the  influence  of  that  most 
secret  body  which  absolutely  controls  and  works  through  a  vast,  materially- 
spiritual,  homogeneous  and  one-purposed  organization,  millions  of  whose  mem- 
bers, unconscious  of  its  inner  dominating  force,  are  perfectly  honest,  capable 
and  patriotic  citizens,  who,  in  all  conflicts  save  one,  would  make  their  public 
duties  paramount. 

But  in  the  event  of  active  opposition  to  the  inner  controlling  body's  plans 
of  religious  conquest  and  aggrandizement ;  to  again  combine  Church  and  State 
under  priest  rule,  inciting  this  mass  to  religious  zeal,  and  with  the  additional 
powerful  incentive  of  gaining  both  spiritual  and  political  dominion,  following 
a  successful  issue  from  the  contest ; — what  in  such  event  would  be  the  natural, 
logical  and  inevitable  action  of  many  millions  of  otherwise  good  and  public- 
spirited  citizens ?  Even  the  Sovereign  Pontiff  himself  is  already  subject  to  the 
will  of  the  Jesuits,  as  his  recent  unwilling  submission  to  their  demands  proves. 
The  danger  is  not  so  much  from  the  exoteric  organization,  as  such,  but  is  it 
not  imminent  on  the  lines  indicated?  Have  these  persistent,  crafty  men  ceased 
to  live  and  work?  Have  they  at  this  crucial  time  abandoned  their  long-cher- 
ished purpose  to  rule  the  western  hemisphere? 

Looking  about  the  world,  do  we  find  evidences  of  the  workings  of  this 
inner  controlling  body — the  working  out  of  a  plan  of  the  nature  indicated  ?  The 
innocently  blind,  careless  and  unobserving  may  see  no  danger ;  but  those  who 
have  eyes  to  see,  who  analyze,  look  behind  and  underneath,  discover  the  selfish 
plans  and  subtle  workings  of  this  evil-directed,  highly  intelligent,  crafty,  hidden 
body,  which  has  ever  sought  power,  wealth  and  aggrandizement  for  itself,  at 
the  expense  and  ultimate  ruin  of  the  people  or  nation  it  permanently  controlled. 

If  this  statement  requires  proof  the  following  examples  will  serve  the  un- 
prejudiced seeker: 

Spain,  once  proud,  haughty,  powerful — the  dominating  power  in  Europe — 
championed  and  accepted  priest-craft  rule.  As  the  direct  result,  this  noble 
people  stands  as  a  nation  humiliated,  bankrupt,  powerless  and  disgraced. 

The  other  European  nations  who  are  largely  or  entirely  dominated  by  the 
same  priest  power,  are  rapidly  approaching  the  same  fate. 

The  horrible  crime  against  Dreyfus,  plainly  revealed  this  hidden  power 
in  control  of  the  French  army  through  its  General  Staff;  these  officers,  direct- 
ing the  most  powerful  arm  of  the  Government,  false  to  every  thing  and  condi- 
tion, utterly  demoralized,  unpatriotic  and  venal,  and  this  in  the  face  of  the  fact 
that  the  safety  and  very  life  of  the  nation  were  thereby  placed  in  extremest 
jeopardy.  What  must  be  the  character  of  the  influence  which  could  so  change 
Frenchmen  and  cause  them  to  forget  their  country  and  their  honor? 

Note  who  are  now  making  protest  against  officials  of  France,  for  looking 


8  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

to  Masonry  for  counsel  and  aid  in  their  endeavor  to  remedy  this  lamenta,ble 
condition  and  safeguard  the  nation !  Why  do  experienced,  honest,  efficient  men 
turn  from  one,  and  to  the  other  when  in  dire  trouble? 

Cuba  rose  in  insurrection,  preferring  to  destroy  itself  in  manly  battle, 
rather  than  longer  submit  to  the  slower  but  more  certain  process  of  material, 
mental  and  spiritual  degradation,  ruin  and  death,  which  she  saw  was  inevitable 
under  the  priest  rule  from  which  she  had  suffered  for  centuries.  Behind  the 
Cubans'  heaven-inspired  effort  stood  Cuban  Masons,  holding  to  the  common 
religion,  but  above  it,  planning,  laboring  and  fighting  for  material  and  spiritual 
liberty,  as  did  Masons  in  our  own  American  Revolution. 

The  Philippine  insurrection  was  not  against  Spanish  rule,  as  such,  but 
against  open,  flagrant  and  corrupt  priest  rule.  In  their  trouble,  native  Masons 
of  the  same  religious  belief,  performed  the  same  high  service  as  did  the  Cubans. 

Until  the  Central  and  South  American  States  threw  off  direct  and  domi- 
nating priest  rule  in  secular  and  state  affairs,  the  trend  of  their  fate  was  the 
same  as  that  of  Cuba. 

Ireland,  with  its  depleted,  poverty-stricken  and  ignorant,  though  naturally 
intelligent,  peasantry,  is  an  example  of  the  degrading  effect  of  the  same  con- 
trolling influence. 

All  these  examples  are  self-evident  illustrations  of  the  universally  fatal  re- 
sults following  Jesuitical  rule. 

Holding  these  illuminated  examples  in  mind,  they  may  incite  well-meaning, 
humane  and  patriotic  humanity  to  search  among  northern  nations  for  projec- 
tions and  ramifications  of  the  same  general  plan  which  has  ensnared  their  south- 
ern neighbors. 

On  the  American  Continents  to-day,  every  large  centre  of  population  is 
wholly  or  in  the  main  absolutely  dominated  by  a  political  master,  whose  main- 
spring of  action  is  largely  regulated  by  direct  or  indirect  Jesuitical  manipula- 
tion, and  the  same  is  true  of  labor  organizations,  if  the  names  of  their  officers 
are  correctly  given.  This  Master,  especially  in  the  United  States,  is  already 
sufficiently  aggressive  and  powerful  to  menacingly  suggest,  and  frequently  to 
dictate  to  States,  and  to  strongly  influence  the  National  Government. 

What  force  is  behind  the  persistent  endeavor  to  destroy  our  public  school 
system — the  cradle  and  foundation  of  mental  and  spiritual  intelligence  and 
freedom?  Is  it  the  same  force  which,  working  to  destroy  our  public  schools, 
labors  incessantly  to  establish  parochial  schools  in  their  place,  supported  at  pub- 
lic expense?  The  relationship  is  too  close  to  admit  of  separate  parentage  and 
cradling. 

The  same  force  is  active  in  Germany,  and  is  tentatively  but  secretly  invad- 
ing Sweden. 

Old,  tried  and  experienced  generals  in  the  regular  service, — men  in  whom 
our  army  and  the  whole  country  have  absolute  confidence, — have  either  been 
held  inactive,  or  recalled  after  short  and  successful  command,  while  obscure 
corners  have  been  explored  in  search  of  more  obscure  men  to  command  our  for- 
eign armies.     Our  army  in  the  Philippines  is  under  the  command  of  such  a 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  9 

discovery.  He  owes  allegiance  to,  and  has  hamperingly  surrounded  himself 
with,  priest-craft,  against  which  the  Filippinos  originally  rebelled.  Reports  of 
responsible  soldiers,  officers,  business  and  professional  men,  and  even  trust- 
worthy government  officials,  furnish  the  perfectly  reliable  basis  for  this  state- 
ment. 

We  are  now  delegating  a  Bishop  to  assist  our  beleaguered  General  in  un- 
raveling our  tangled  skein  of  Filippino  yam. 

What  influence  is  being  exerted  upon  our  Government?  Is  it  blind,  or 
is  it  looking  ahead  with  self-interested  vision?  Are  we  as  a  j>eople  blind,  or 
only  careless  and  criminally  innocent  and  trusting  ? 

But  why  question  and  seek  proof  when  the  object  and  purpose  is  openly 
avowed  and  enforced  wherever  and  whenever  possible,  as  the  following  ex- 
amples show  ?  ^ 
j/^   One  of  our  eminent  and  able  American  bishops,  in  recent  speeches  delivered X 
(in  Europe,  plainly  stated  that  "the  day  is  not  far  distant  when  England  djxd   ) 
Vihe  United  States  will  be  under  Catholic  control." 

During  our  Spanish  and  Philippine  wars  the  same  prelate,  ably  assisted  by 
another,  has  been  busily  engaged  at  Washington. 

Spanish  clerics  recently  petitioned  the  Queen  for  a  restoration  of  the  In- 
quisition. 

Another  prelate  is  publicly  emphasizing  the  patriotism  of  Catholic  Ameri- 
cans displayed  in  our  Revolutionary  struggle,  in  the  Secession  war  and  in  our 
present  conflict. 

Why  this  emphasizing  of  Catholic  over  Protestant  patriots,  who  at  least 
fought  and  suffered  equally?  What  is  the  underneath  force  which  is  already 
separating  and  classifying  American  citizenship  through  religious  preferment? 
Have  we  as  a  people  already  been  separated  on  this  powerful  and  subtle  line 
by  those  whose  personal  and  church  ambitions  would  be  thus  served? 

These  are  facts  and  presentations  which  deeply  interest  and  involve  every 
true  American — in  fact,  every  human  being,  whether  Pro-test-ant,  Catholic  or 
non-Conformant  to  any  creed,  for  "a  house — or  the  temple  of  humanity — 
divided  against  itself  cannot  stand." 

Their  common  blood,  gladly  poured  on  our  towering  altar  of  Liberty, 
has  sanctified  our  sacred  common  soil  and  country ;  together  they  must  protect 
and  preserve  it  intact,  against  physical  or  religious  dismemberment,  to  go  down 
into  the  ages  as  the  world's  Refuge  from  tyranny  and  intolerance;  as  Human- 
ity's Beacon  Light  of  Enlightenment,  Tolerance  and  Mental  and  Spiritual  Lib- 
erty, Freedom  and  Brotherhood. 

Thus  it  came  to  us  from  the  Fathers,  and  so  must  and  will  our  sacred 
heritage  be  passed  on  inviolate,  so  long  as  stern,  true  men  tread  American  soil. 

The  completed  examples  of  priest  rule,  and  its  pregnant  endeavors  as 
cited,  reveal  a  widespread  plan  and  purpose  to  gain  control  in  the  Western 
Hemisphere,  and  merge  Church  and  State  under  the  dominion  of  this  Jesuitical 
oligarchy. 

These  are  vital  facts  and  presentations  which  cannot  be  set  aside,  nor  ex- 


lo  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

plained  away.    They  in  themselves  constitute  a  Supreme  Court  of  Divine 
Judgment. 

In  view  of  what  its  past  accomplishments  have  been,  and  its  present  her- 
culean preparatory  efforts,  these  examples  should  serve  as  God's  warning  and 
command  to  all  intelligent  lovers  of  progress,  liberty  and  humanity,  regardless 
of  differences  in  creeds  or  races,  to  rally  in  defense  of  the  highest  interests  of 
our  common  humanity,  against  the  insidious,  hidden  and  open  aggressions  of 
this  focalized  force  of  evil  in  the  Western  World,  now  mustered  on  the  vis- 
ible and  invisible  planes  of  action,  to  perpetuate  and  expand  its  mental  and  spir- 
itual thralldom  of  man. 

The  Jesuit  order  is  the  wedge  point  of  bigotry  and  intolerance,  as  main 
factors  in  gaining  temporal  and  spiritual  dominion,  and  as  such  it  must  be 
recognized,  met  and  subdued,  if  humanity  is  to  progress. 

With  this  Jesuitical  force  already  arrayed  and  attacking  Right,  Justice 
and  Progress  along  the  whole  front  of  human  affairs,  what  is  to  oppose  it? 
What  universal,  compact,  organized  force  is  to  be  found,  based  on  the  broad 
foundation  of  a  Common  Brotherhood,  ruled  by  Love,  Charity  and  Justice;  its 
members  sworn  to  propagate  Right,  Truth  and  Enlightenment ;  a  force  which 
can  stay  this  actively  offensive  power  of  evil,  and  ultimately  defeat,  lead  and 
force  its  disintegrated  component  parts  into  lines  of  unselfish  action  ? 

To  do  this  saving  work  for  humanity  requires  earnest,  substantial  men 
and  women,  who  have  evolved  from  the  separate,  and  therefore  weak,  secular 
and  religious  bodies  sufficient  intelligence,  to  draw  them  together  on  occasions, 
into  one  separate  and  more  highly  evolved  body,  to  act  for  the  common  good 
and  safety. 

Looking  into  the  dim  past,  we  find  in  ancient  Egypt — the  historic  cradle 
of  wisdom,  the  beneficent  rule  of  "Divine  Kings" — men  inspired  by  unselfish 
love  and  guardianship  for  all  that  lived.  Their  "rule  and  guide"  was  the  basic, 
fundamental  and  eternal  law,  embodied  in  their  inherited  "Wisdom-Religion," 
or  Free  Masonry. 

Carried  from  Egypt  into  India,  it  overran  into  Greece,  and  formed  the 
basic  pillars  upon  which  the  superb  material  and  spiritual  civilizations  of  these 
countries  were  reared ;  forming  the  basis  of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments,  its 
spiritual  light  became  to  the  world  obscured,  and  the  material  or  operative  side 
emphasized  in  sublime  architecture,  as  the  various  religious  orders  claiming 
foundation  on  these  "inspired  books"  lost  sight  of  the  spiritual,  in  their  antag- 
onisms, persecutions  and  devastating  contests  for  secular  power. 

The  "Dark  Age"  results  of  these  fanatical  wars  had  plunged  the  civilized 
world  in  nether  darkness,  where  it  would  have  sunk  and  disappeared,  save  for 
Masonry. 

Its  pure  light,  kept  burning  in  the  hearts  of  the  faithful  through  the  dark- 
ening centuries,  was  flashed  upon  the  night  of  Europe  by  Masonry's  chivalric 
Knights,  who  saved  the  fanatical,  murderous  followers  of  their  Christ  from 
self-destruction,  by  uniting  them  in  the  Crusade  "to  rescue  the  Holy  Sepulchre" 
from  the  Moslems. 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  it 

In  doing  this  Master's  work  they  consciously  and  intelligently  utiHzed  this 
destructive  force,  to  serve  the  double  purpose  of  saving  Christian  Europe  from 
self-destruction,  and  from  being  overrun  and  destroyed  by  Moslem  hordes. 

Thus  Masonry  saved  the  world  from  a  fatal  return  plunge  into  barbarism 
in  the  Dark  Material  Ages,  when  the  evil  forces  now  focalized  in  Jesuitry 
dominated. 

The  Crusades  having  demonstrated  the  controlling  power  of  Masonry,  the 
"holders  of  the  key  to  Heaven"  turned  upon  the  Saviors  of  Humanity  and  by 
orders  of  the  "Holy  Church"  persecuted,  imprisoned,  tortured  and  foully  mur- 
dered thousands  of  these  noble,  chivalrous  knights;  confiscated  their  property, 
destroyed  their  strongholds  and  priceless  libraries  and  scattered  their  follow- 
ers in  a  futile  attempt  to  destroy  the  Order. 

The  Jesuitical  element,   which  incarnated   in  Masonry  to  control,  after" 
failing  to  destroy  it,  did  to  an  extent  change  the  ritualism  in  1707;  but  failing 
in  its  second  purpose,  it  was  forced  out,  and  a  remnant  is  now  found  in  secret 
control  of  certain  small  and  powerless  occult  (so-called)  semi-masonic  bodies, 
^^which  teach  and  practice  the  black  arts  in  this  nineteenth  century. 

But  for  what  purpose  do  a  few  sentinel-spies  of  this  old  enemy  of  Masonry 
conceal  themselves  in  its  inner  body  and  heart  to-day  f  Are  Masons  also  blind 
and  asleep  f 

The  vital  light  of  Truth  has  always  flamed  too  strongly  in  Masonry  for 
adverse  winds  to  extinguish;  its  own  inherent  purity  and  strength,  when 
stirred  into  action,  purges  and  throws  off  from  the  body  the  festering  impuri- 
ties, which  gather  in  separate  dark  pools  of  claimed  Masonic  origin,  to  be  re- 
absorbed into  the  mass  and  disappear  through  nature's  divine  alchemic  process 
of  purification. 

Masons  planned,  precipitated  and  successfully  prosecuted  our  American 
Revolution  against  tyranny  and  oppression;  our  beloved,  God-inspiring,  sym- 
bolic flag,  and  our  publicity  undeciphered  seal  are  of  Masonic  origin,  design 
and  tracing. 

In  the  present  century  Masonry  is  again,  unconsciously,  at  the  front,  as  yet 
in  disconnected  detachments,  defending  humanity  against  tyranny,  bigotry  and 
intolerance. 

For  years  previous  to  the  breaking  out  of  war  between  Greece  and  Turkey, 
Greek  Masonry  had  gradually  aroused  a  strong  and  healthy  feeling  of  Re- 
stored Nationality  in  the  Greek  people,  after  centuries  of  depression  and  hope- 
lessness under  Turkish  domination.  In  order  to  still  further  arouse  and  incite 
this  growing  feeling  for  a  strong  Greek  national  life,  the  Masons  put  arms  in 
the  hands  of  the  people  and  precipitated  the  war,  believing  that  even  under 
defeat,  their  country  would  be  benefited  by  sooner  realizing  her  ambition  to 
regain  her  ancient  position  as  a  power  among  the  nations. 

Centuries  of  priest  rule  in  Cuba  had  held  that  beautiful  and  fertile  island 
practically  undeveloped,  and  its  naturally  bright  and  intelligent  population,  ren- 
dered hopeless  of  material  comfort  and  progress,  was  rapidly  sinking  into 
mental  and  spiritual  apathy  and  death. 


12  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

Under  these  formidable  and  almost  hopeless  conditions,  working  in  secret 
under  bane  of  the  church — which  ever  seeks  to  destroy  whatever  fails  to  min- 
ister to  its  material  advancement — were  patriotic  Masons,  who,  true  to  their 
Masonic  heritage,  held  its  dimmed  light  in  this  dark  place,  planning  and  arous- 
ing a  hopeless  people  to  battle  for  their  spiritual  liberty.  To  Cuban  Masons 
Cuba  owes  her  freedom. 

The  inner  history  of  the  insurrection  against  priest  rule  in  the  Philippines 
is  practically  the  same  as  that  of  Cuba.  This  statement  may  surprise  many 
Masons,  who  do  not  know  that  the  inner  ruling  factor  among  aH  Nature-people 
has  been  Masonry  during  all  the  ages,  and  is  to-day.  If  this  suggests  to  the 
shallow  mind  the  idea  that  Savagery  is  Masonry,  deeper  thinkers  may  quite 
pertinently  ask,  which  in  fact  is  savage  and  which  civilized,  the  so-called  savage 
fighting  defensively  to  save  his  lands  and  very  life,  or  his  attacking  ruthless, 
so-called  civilized,  murderous  robber?  The  few  white  Masons  who,  as  men 
and  Masons,  have  proved  themselves  worthy  of  admission  into  the  inner  savage 
Masonic  tribe  governing-coMncils,  have  found  ample  reason  for  praying  God  to 
speedily  inject  the  there  discovered  "rule  and  guide"  of  the  savage  governing 
class,  into  the  private  and  public  life  of  all  civilized  people  and  Masons. 

When  white  men  prove  themselves  trustzuorthy,  they  will  find  a  mine  of 
mental  and  spiritual  knowledge  and  wisdom  preserved  for  them  by  their  darker- 
skinned  brothers,  if  they  do  not  sooner  succeed  in  utterly  destroying  these 
scattered  remnants  of  the  most  ancient  and  once  mighty  civilized  races,  who 
have  ever  held  the  purest  Masonry  as  their  inner  guiding  light,  even  against 
the  white  man's  polluting  touch. 

As  warriors,  strategists  and  orators,  they  to-day  instruct  the  white  man, 
while  they  do  sincere  and  intelligent  reverence  to  the  "Great  Spirit,"  who,  ever 
present,  speaks  to  them  in  His  and  their  common  Nature  language ;  in  the  song 
of  birds,  the  flowers  and  forest  giant,  the  laughing  brook,  the  sweeping  river 
and  mighty  deep,  the  vitalizing  breeze  and  raging  tempest,  the  vibrant  heaven- 
resounding  thunder,  the  lightning  flash  of  His  quick  glance,  the  heavenward 
pointing  mountain  peaks,  the  moon  and  sparkling  jeweled  dome,  in  the  mighty, 
blazing,  fructifying  sun,  as  symbol  of  His  all-observing,  loving  eye,  and  glow- 
ing heart. 

In  presence  of  such  a  reality,  and  such  a  language,  these  wise  and  noble- 
minded,  broadly  spiritual  brothers,  hold  themselves  above  the  white  man's  belief 
in  a  personally  owned,  silent  and  remote  God. 

French  Masons,  aroused  by  the  Jesuitically  incited  crime  against  Dreyfus, 
are  responding  to  the  call,  and  are  aiding  France  to  safeguard  herself,  and  right 
the  fatal  wrongs  committed  by  her  Jesuitical  army  staff. 

In  Sweden,  Masonry  stands,  and  to  an  extent  in  Germany,  as  a  block  to 
Jesuit  aggression. 

The  same  will  prove  true  in  England,  if  Masonry's  Royal  Grand  Master 
there  will  arouse  himself,  and  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  Sweden's  King,  and 
Mexico's  warrior-statesman  President. 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  13 

Since  the  killing  blow  to  Jesuit  rule  in  Spain,  her  long-waiting,  patient, 
but  powerful  Masons,  are  infusing  a  new  life  into  her  awaking  northern  prov- 
inces, in  an  effort  to  arouse  and  rescue  the  Spanish  people. 

Many  of  the  South  American  States  have  Masons  at  the  helm,  and  they 
should  have  grown  too  wise  from  past  experience,  to  ever  again  trust  their  old 
false  pilots  on  the  commander's  bridge. 

In  Canada,  the  apparent  controlling  force  is  on  the  side  of  retrogression, 
and  her  Masons  should  change  the  current  in  her  naturally  strong  and  liberal 
atmosphere. 

The  United  States  is  the  "Arch  Stone,"  the  Coveted  Prise,  possession  of 
which,  at  this  time,  largely  decides  the  destiny  of  humanity  for  centuries.  Proof 
of  this  is  at  hand  on  every  side ;  in  the  advanced  leading  and  unique  position 
we  have  taken  among  the  nations  within  the  past  eighteen  months  in  defense  of 
"needy  brothers;"  in  our  evident  destiny  if  we  do  right;  hut  stronger  proof 
than  any  other  one  thing,  is  the  thoroughly  awake  condition  and  extreme 
effort  now  being  put  forth  to  secure  Catholic  control. 

Under  these  vital  conditions,  how  do  we  find  American  Masons,  placed  by 
the  law  of  succession  as  joint  heirs  to  Masonry's  past  noble  deeds  and  glory  in 
the  service  of  humanity  ?  They  should  be  and  are,  numerically  and  otherwise — 
if  they  will  awake — the  controlling  factor  in  the  executive  and  legislative  de- 
partments of  our  government ;  but,  apparently  unconscious  of  the  mighty  mean- 
ing of  this  time  and  its  events ;  unobservant  of  the  advanced  positions  already 
taken  and  held  against  the  Jesuits  by  detached  and  unsupported  bodies  of 
Masons,  preparatory  to  the  coming  universal  conflict ;  unconscious  of  the  vital 
position  they  themselves  occupy  in  relation  to  the  times,  conditions  and  events ; 
ignorant,  forgetful  or  careless  of  the  divine  mission  of  Masonry,  the  leading 
part  it  has  well  acted  in  the  past  spiritual-material  history  of  the  world ;  of  the 
commanding  position  it  holds  to-day  along  the  whole  front;  the  half-uncon- 
scious, impatient  waiting  of  the  better  element  in  humanity  for  right  and  trusty 
leadership,  that  it  may  spring  to  the  defense  of  Right  and  Truth;  failing  to 
recognize  or  even  observe  these  plainly  presented  things,  conditions,  compelling 
opportunities  and  sacred  duties,  our  official  Masons  act  as  ordinary  men,  with- 
out concentrated  purpose,  and  even  allow  themselves  to  be  influenced  and 
guided  by  the  Generals  of  Masonry's  fully  aroused,  alert,  concentrated  and 
ready  foe. 

The  same  is  true  of  the  Masonic  order  as  a  whole,  notwithstanding  the 
forceful  thought-suggesting  fact,  that  everywhere  throughout  the  whole  world, 
among  all  nations,  races  and  people,  civilized  or  so-called  savage,  formal  Ma- 
sonry is  active  beyond  precedent — even  rampant — among  the  best  and  most 
intelligent  classes. 

"O  God,  my  God  !  arousd  the;  Widow's  Sons"  to  intelligent,  concentrated 
action  against  the  forces  of  evil  now  epitomized  in  Jesuitry,  the  ancient  foe  of 
Masonry,  and  the  common  enemy  of  the  best  in  humanity. 

By  such  concentration  of  Masonic  "Thought"  constantly  directed  against 
^'Jesuitry"  expressed  in  private  and  public  life  a  Bloodless  Revolution  of  the 


14  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

World  will  be  accomplished,  and  Humanity,  with  a  higher,  grander  conception 
of  life,  its  possibilities  and  purposes,  will  be  lifted  onto  the  higher  plane  of 
conscious,  self-responsible  action,  to  move  on  to  its  higher  evolution  in  peace, 
harmony  and  love,  a  true  and  Universal  Masonic  Brotherhood. 

Without  such  concentrated  thought  and  action,  the  world — Masonry  still 
dominating  and  responsible — must  wade  through  a  sea  of  blood,  but  to  finally 
emerge  depleted,  exhausted,  thrown  far  backward  in  its  evolution,  the  remnant 
purified  and  made  wiser,  to  again  climb  back  over  the  long  and  more  slippery, 
blood-washed  slope. 

Such  is  Masonry's  Inevitable  Choice  and  Work,  else  its  past  record  and 
present  position  are  meaningless  and  absurd. 

Masons  who  fail  to  recognize  our  present  position  and  consequent  responsi- 
bilities, are  not  keen  observers  of  the  great  law  of  Cause  and  Effect  which 
governs  even  their  individual  lives,  and  has  brought  Masonry  into  controlling 
position  at  this  vital  epoch. 

The  cyclic  operation  of  this  great  Universal  Law  has  again  brought  the 
cumulative  results  and  forces  of  Fifty  Centuries — good  and  evil — face  to  fa.ce 
for  final  combat  under  the  white  Hag  of  Masonry  and  the  black  Hag  of  Jesuitry. 

The  lost  and  tangled  threads  of  past  individual,  national  and  race  life  and 
epochs  are  bound  up  in  the  present,  presenting  themselves  to  be  untangled  and 
staged  for  the  final  drama  of  the  world's  evolution. 

This  gigantic  nature-combination  of  time,  humanity,  conditions  and 
events,  is  by  no  possibility  simply  a  senseless  happening  or  accident.  Even 
vast,  man-directed  combinations  are  forerunners  of  vast  and  far-reaching  re- 
sults; but  when  nature  combines  or  focalizes  the  active  visible  and  invisible 
forces  of  the  centuries  and  their  pregnant  results,  the  physical,  mental  and  spir- 
itual map  of  the  world  will  be  changed,  either  for  the  weal  or  woe  of  humanity. 

It  is  these  stupendous  facts  which  constitute  this  a  vital  epoch. 

As  the  moving  panorama  of  events  shows,  the  old  Director  of  the  dark 
forces  is  already  alert  and  consciously  on  the  field,  directing  the  strategy,  and 
placing  the  forces  as  they  consciously  or  unconsciously,  in  evil  thought  or 
action,  report  for  assignment. 

At  this  vital  moment,  opposed  to  its  old  enemy,  Masonry  stands  inertly 
in  place,  all  unconscious  of  the  Impending  Crisis,  and  the  commanding  and 
victorious  part  it  must  assume  in  this  final  conflict,  else  the  "Light  of  the 
World,"  which  has  ever  been  its  sacred  charge,  will  be  quenched  in  the  dark- 
ness of  returned  barbarism  and  spiritual  death. 

Do  Masons  doubt  these  presentations  and  deductions  ?  Do  they  doubt  the 
divine  origin,  mission  and  past  accomplishments  of  Masonry?  If  so,  they  are 
making  a  fatal  error.  Let  them  follow  and  analyze  the  statements  and  claims 
herein  made,  and  they  will  surely  bring  themselves  face  to  face  with  their  duty 
as  the  present  Saviors  of  Humanity;  then  they  can  perform  or  shirk  it  intelli- 
gently and  with  the  full  sense  of  their  responsibility. 

Is  Masonry  sufficiently  homogeneous,  powerful,  divinely  human  and  cour- 
ageous, to  manfully  assume  the  high  duty  to  which  it  is  now  called  by  the  voice 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  15 

of  Humanity  and  of  God,  speaking  through  His  law-conditioned  events ;  upon 
what  foundation  does  it  rest ;  what  are  its  origin  and  antecedents ;  what  does  it 
teach  and  hold  as  right  practice  ? 

This  thoroughly  organized,  univer'sal,  homogeneous  body  is  composed,  as 
it  has  ever  been,  of  the  most  enlightened,  broad-minded,  progressive,  tolerant, 
broadly  patriotic,  brotherly  men  of  all  nations,  races  and  creeds,  who,  rising 
above  these  minor  geographical,  climatic  and  selfish  differences,  meet  each  other 
on  the  "level"  of  a  common  origin,  life  and  destiny,  and  the  "square"  of  right 
action  as  embodied  in  the  "Golden  Rule ;"  meeting,  living  and  parting  as  broth- 
ers, holding  the  common  purpose  to  Uplift  Humanity;  a  body  inherently  gov- 
erned by  Charity,  Equity  and  Love,  held  as  ever  conscious,  active  principles  in 
the  daily  life  of  man;  reverence  for  the  great  "Universal  Architect"  expressed 
through  constant,  glad  and  intelligent  conformity  to  His  law,  the  key  to  which 
is  concealed  in  their  divine  Symbology,  to  be  found  and  used  for  the  common 
good  by  those  who  prove  themselves  "Worthy  and  Well  Qualified." 

From  the  earliest  history  of  pre-historic  man,  Masons  have  stood  bound 
to  practice,  teach  and  disseminate  knowledge  of  universal  law,  enlightenment 
and  truth  among  all  that  live;  to  carry  humanity's  path-illuminating  light;  to 
work  for  man's  liberation  from  his  own  lower  nature  or  devil,  from  ignorance, 
bigotry  and  mental  and  spiritual  thralldom;'to  work  as  conscious,  eternally  liv- 
ing divine  souls,  from  time  to  time  occupying  and  using  physical  bodies  as 
instruments,  through  which  to  effect  their  divine  purpose  of  mutual  evolution 
and  final  redemption  from  selfishness,  through  conscious  unity  in  a  common 
evolving  brotherhood  of  all  that  lives  and  is. 

Upon  its  broad,  basic  and  eternally  enduring  foundation  principles,  all  re- 
ligions and  philosophies  which  have  ever  engaged  the  thought  of  man,  have 
walled  in  a  portion,  and  reared  thereon  their  isolated  creed  and  thought-limit- 
ing structures,  forgetting  that  truth  is  limitless  and  universal. 

While  to  an  extent  the  members  of  this  all-compassing  body,  like  the  com- 
paratively weak,  because  creed-separated  and  antagonistic  religious  organiza- 
tions, have  lost  sight  of  their  great  mission,  its  broad  and  all-embracing  funda- 
mental principles  remain  as  a  living  spiritual  force,  which  consciously  elevates 
and  ennobles  the  thought  and  action  of  every  member. 

In  peculiar  and  significant  relationship  to  the  evident  developing  plan,  is 
observed  the  fact  that  at  this  crucial  time  men  of  all  creeds,  peoples,  nations 
and  races,  civilized  and  uncivilized,  imbued  with  the  divine  principles  of 
Brotherhood  or  Masonry,  stand  at  the  helm  of  the  world's  affairs,  sustained 
and  reinforced  in  right  action  by  the  honest  intelligence  and  substantial  worth 
resident  in  all  nations. 

With  such  a  divinely  reared  and  all-embracing  organization,  success  is 
assured,  if  the  members  but  awake  and  perform  their  sacred  duty  in  combat- 
ing, while  holding  themselves  free  from  the  subtle  influences  of  the  old  Enemy 
of  Masonry,  an  enemy  which  has  made  the  selfish  thralldom  of  men's  minds  its 
main  object,  and  the  control  or  destruction  of  Freemasonry  (its  principal  op- 
ponent) the  main,  secret,  and  at  times  open,  purpose  of  its  effort  for  centuries. 


i6  CLOSING  AND  COMING  CENTURY. 

/^      Thousands  of  Freemasonr}j's  stanchest  advocates,  men  whose  voices  were 
I    ever  heard  promulgating  its  all-embracing,  divine  principles,  who  could  not  be 
I    silenced  by  fear,  calumny,  persecution  or  imprisonment,  have  found  silence  and 
\  death  at  the  hands  of  its  relentless  foe,  in  hideous  tortures,  secret  graves  and 
\horrible  dungeons. 
\      Summing  up  the  situation,  we  find  as  a  result  of  the  general  unrest  and 
disturbance,  that  the  world  has  been  sufficiently  aroused  by  emphasized  wrong 
and  injustice,  to  cause  humanity  to  array  itself  for  or  against  Principle ;  that 
right  and  justice  have  prevailed  in  the  preliminary  skirmishes  and  tentative 
battles;  that  the  results  have  been  to  uncover  hypocrisy  and  deception,  and 
force  into  the  open  the  now  concentrated  evil  forces  which  have  heretofore 
worked  in  the  shadows,  through  sophistry,  intrigue,  calumny,  persecution,  insti- 
gated devastation  and  death. 

It  is  evident  that  Jesuitr}'  and  Masonry,  leading  the  opposing  forces  of 
evil  and  good,  are  again  in  battle  array;  that  the  Irrepressible  Conflict  is  on, 
and  that  all  these  things  and  conditions  exist  and  must  be  met.  How  can  this 
be  done  in  a  way,  not  only  to  prevent  disaster,  but  to  bring  about  harmony, 
true  success  for  all,  and  utilize  the  measureless  forces  now  in  evidence,  for  the 
general  progress  and  a  mighty  universal  uplifting  of  humanity,  such  as  the 
centuries  have  not  witnessed? 

With  strong,  alert  minds,  and  unselfish,  wise  and  broadly  courageous 
concerted  action  for  the  common  good,  on  the  part  of  Masons,  and  the  few 
conscientious  leaders  of  men  and  nations,  this  now  focalized  Endeavor  and 
Purpose  of  the  Ages  can  easily  become  a  fact,  and  the  reign  of  selfishness  and 
error  be  swallowed  up  in  the  rule  of  Equity,  Brotherliness  and  Peace. 

Intelligent  consideration  of  developing  conditions  and  events  reveal  them 
as  advanced  manoeuvers  in  a  gigantic  contest  now  on  between  these  universal 
forces  of  Good  and  Evil,  the  former  unwittingly  holding  many,  and  dangerous- 
ly threatening  the  disputed  strategic  points. 

Faith  in  the  already  apparent  Divine  Guidance  and  results  evolves  into 
conviction,  on  discovering  that  thus  far.  Right  and  Justice  have  prevailed  over 
Inhumanity,  Tyranny,  Craft  and  Injustice. 

The  Signs  of  the  Times  clearly  indicate  the  dominant  control  of  a  high- 
purposed  intelligence,  force  or  law,  which  in  recent  turnings  of  the  serpent's 
sting  upon  itself,  has  demonstrated  its  intent  and  ability  to  control  and  turn 
to  good  every  situation,  condition  and  thing  having  its  basis  in  selfishness, 
ignorance  and  intolerance. 

To  enable  this  spiritual  force  to  become  fully  operative  requires  only  that 
true-hearted  men  and  women  everywhere  stand  alert  and  at  their  posts,  ready 
for  the  impelling  of  the  higher  law. 

The  individual  and  collective  duty  and  opportunity  of  Masons,  and  all 
right-minded  men  and  women,  is  clear  and  unmistakable. 

At  all  previous,  and  by  comparison,  minor  epochs  in  the  world's  history. 
Masonry  has  sprung  to  the  succor  of  jeopardized  humanity  and  become  its 
savior. 


FREE  MASONRY  AND  JESUITRY.  17 

Now,  at  this  Supreme  Crisis  in  the  world's  history — unless  the  general 
disturbance  and  conflict  are  meaningless — the  universal,  all-embracing  forces  of 
Good  and  Evil  are  aroused,  and  have  already  locked  horns  in  the  final  gigantic 
life  and  death  struggle;  the  evolution  of  the  entire  human  race  is  at  stake, 
either  upward  into  a  higher,  truer,  nobler  condition  of  an  unselfish  common 
brotherhood,  governed  by  equity  and  love,  or  its  present  barbarously  civilized, 
degrading  selfishness  and  lust,  bearing  their  legitimate  fruit  of  speedy  de- 
generacy, and  humanity  lapsing  into  the  second  stage  of  a  universal  uncivilized 
barbarism;  at  this  momentous  crisis,  Masonry  must  and  will  arouse  its  hoary 
slumbering  spiritual  giant  strength,  and  go  forth  as  the  Great  Master's  chosen 
primeval  agent,  to  do  victorious  battle  against  embodied  evil,  now  focalized  in 
its  old,  persistent  and  relentless  Jesuitical  enemy. 

Then  will  our  Divinely  Instituted  Primeval  Order  regain  its  forgotten 
glory  of  the  "Golden  Age,"  and  under  restored  Masonry's  benign  rule,  the 
efl^ulgence  of  that  dimly  remembered  Age  will  again  warm  the  heart,  and 
illuminate  the  mind  of  humanity,  to  bring  in  the  reign  of  "Peace  and  Good 
Will  among  Men." 

My  Brothers,  this  is  not  a  Utopian  dream,  but  a  Living  Fact,  the  mate- 
rialization of  which  is  easily  within  our  power,  if  we  arouse  ourselves  and  act 
as  true  men  and  Masons. 

I  appeal,  not  to  the  Unintelligently  Educated  and  the  Ignorant — the  unsafe 
extremities  of  humanity — but  to  the  Great  Common  People  of  all  nations  and 
races,  with  whom  intelligence,  tolerance,  discernment,  stern  kindness,  robust 
energy,  mutual  helpfulness  and  common  sense  find  welcome  and  congenial 
bivouac,  and  through  whom  these  manly,  God-like  attributes  find  freest  and 
most  helpful  expression. 

I  beg  of  you !  I  plead  with  you !  Brothers  of  the  great  Universal  "Masonic" 
Brotherhood,  awake,  examine  and  analyze  our  vitalized  God-given  symbology ; 
the  present  pregnant  conditions  and  events,  and  you  will  become  convinced,  and 
be  moved  to  act  for  the  sake  of  the  Humanity  which  our  negligence  of  Masonic 
Duty  has  orphanized. 

Find  God  in  Duty,  and  Heaven  in  its  faithful,  fearless  performance. 

Rameses. 


NoTie  This.  The  Vatican  organ,  Osservatore  Romano,  recently  pub- 
lished this  editorial  note: 

"Patience  and  clemency  have  been  carried  too  far.  Catholics  must  now 
trust  in  the  God  of  Armies.  The  Free  Masons  are  terrified  at  the  possibility 
of  war  between  England  and  the  Transvaal.  But  England  cannot  give  way 
without  covering  herself  with  ridicule.  Can  it  be  that  this  war  is  providen- 
tial? Will  Protestantism  be  exhausted  by  it?  Has  the  great  transformation 
of  the  world  begun  when  the  Church  will  accomplish  a  new  conversion  of  the 
Gentiles?  Let  us  have  courage,  determination  and  faith  in  God,  who  is  now 
and  ever  the  God  of  Armies." 


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